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Appendix B: Convening Organizations
Appendix B: Convening Organizations
Pages 199-204
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Bishop Strossmayer was elected the patron of the Academy and the historian Canon Franjo Rački the first president. This national academy of sciences and arts took the name Accademia Slavorum Meridionalium (of the South Slavs)
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The Croatian Academy may elect as honorary members, persons who are exceptionally meritorious for the development and progress of sciences and arts. Among its deceased members, we should mention the Nobel Laureates Lavoslav Ružička, Vladimir Prelog, Ivo Andrić, and Linus Pauling; Nikola Tesla, world famous scientist and inventor; Vlaho Bukovac, famous Croatian painter; Ivan Meštrović, world famous sculptor; and Andrija Štampar, founder of the World Health Organization; Dmitrij Ivanovič Mendeljejev; and numerous other world-renowned scientists and artists.
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The Society has played a part in some of the most fundamental, significant, and life-changing discoveries in scientific history, and Royal Society scientists continue to make outstanding contributions to science in many research areas. The Royal Society is the national academy of science in the United Kingdom, and its core is its Fellowship and Foreign Membership, supported by a dedicated staff in London and elsewhere.
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The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on scientific and technical matters.
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Dzau is president of the Institute of Medicine. The National Research Council was organized by the National Academy of Sciences in 1916 to associate the broad community of science and technology with the Academy's purposes of furthering knowledge and advising the federal government.
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